Radiations in Tokyo, real-time

Japan is going through a wide spectrum of catastrophes: an impressive earthquake was followed by a terrible tsunami that killed thousands of people, swept away whole villages and destroyed the emergency power generators of Fukushima's cooling system, causing radiation to spread out, even to northern America. Moreover, a vulcano erupted and... there's even a bird flu warning in Chiba. Because of the laws of statistic  they will be the luckiest nation in the world for an hundred years, at the least.

Going back to radiations fear, what about the biggest town, Tokyo? Well, it seems that there's less radioacticity than in Rome, and thanks to a guy named Shinji Hiroshi we can have a proof: 



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A count per minute value below 40 is perfectly normal; we read about 25, so there's nothing's wrong in Tokyo's air at the moment. Instead, Rome counts 0.25 microsievert per hour, 6 times Tokyo's actual radioactivity. Unbelieveable.

Anyway, I do consider this live stream a stunning fact: we live in a world that allow us to get (and send) any kind of information, even the most complex one, in a snap and throughout the planet. One can install an actual Geiger device, put a camera on it and broadcast its own video stream to say "everyboy calm down, we're okay". This is more than being connected. It's having mature technologies available and using them with ease, reaching any corner of the world, allowing communications that go beyond cultural differences.

Apart from all this... hang on in there Japan people. We are with you.

Signals of hope

Italian worst minister ever, Clemente Mastella, presented resignation this morning after the nth scandal involving him. After months of sufference and bad administration our Justice Ministry will be released.

In the meanwhile, students at Università la Sapienza prevented Pope's visit in the name of Science.

Good news is that there's still hope in this old, tired and stinky country.

Bad news is that our politicians raised the usual, transversal choir of disapproval. Even our prime minister Prodi defends such a criminal that stomped on justice even to help Mafia.

Trialed intentions

Italian country is becoming a shitty approximation of democracy; moreover, everyday we have to face the huge ignorance of the people who govern us, expecially over the internet.

A new example. A website under seizure due to its argument: drugs. Closed not for selling drugs, neither for helping people distribute them: just because the owner talked about them.

This is not freedom.
This is not liberal.
This gives not sense.
This is, purely, violation of rights.

I can expect this kind of idiocy from my politicians, can't trust them anymore; what I couldn't expect is the reaction of people who talk about "good move against instigation". This is very sad, we are wasting something important we fought for during our history: the freedom of speech.

About drugs, too.

Italy, what a desolating country

We are ruled by ignorants.

We are mortifying for the rest of Europe.

We are definitively a sad country, left in the hands of people who does not have any idea of what they're talking about. Never.

Please, nuke us.
Really.
We are useless, when not worst.

Bad monday morning.